Did you get my PM about this? It would be good if you could give us some help/input into the AHK section I'm writing for the User Guide. Your understanding and experience in these areas would be most valuable.

The freeze macro is just what I've been looking for. I haven't tried it yet (at work), but it seems it will eliminate stemming and extra wave files, right? If so you made my day!

Yes...the 'render to stems' action is better for folder tracks, where there is no media on the track eg vsti's. There will still be a new wav file in your project from the 'apply fx' action however. You need file - clean project to get rid of them automatically.

You zoom in, and the cursor jumps to the middle of the screen. This macro moves the cursor view to the left hand side. This works when the right hand side is expanding out of view, which is more usual...swap action 2 and 3 for the left hand expand version.

nb it doesn't work if there are no items in the project, or after all the items end.

I made this macro toolbar with AHK. It shows tooltips on the icons as well.

This is a great way to organize and use macros and shortcuts, especially if your memory is as poor as mine
and you can't remember all your shortcuts and trigger keys.

I know the icons look kind of crappy but what the heck - it works for me!

PJ,
Very clever stuff, and all credit to you. I'm impressed with the idea of using icons to represent macros and KC, paticularly those i don't use all the time, and tend to forget for that lack of regular use.
As Nicholas asked, if you are willing to share the script, it would be MUCH appreciated.

Nice work, and ongoing proof of the creative usability of Reaper and the creative skills of many of it's users.

I'm hoping to bundle a Reaper Macro Assistant in with the next User Guide upgrade to Reaper 2.00

It's because I find the Keyboard Shortcut interface unwieldy, having to keep digging down into and out of dialog boxes to find what actions are available for inclusion in macros.

The Macro Assistant runs as independently of Reaper, it's a simple little stand-alone tool that just lets you browse, search, filter, sort, etc the list of assignable actions, hopefully to help work out your macros and familiarise yourself with what's available.

It requires dBworx, not because it's the best database manager around, but because it's freeware. You can get dBworx here. Note there's two versions, including one that you have to pay for. The free one is all you need:http://www.plworx-software.com/

I made this macro toolbar with AHK. It shows tooltips on the icons as well.

This is a great way to organize and use macros and shortcuts, especially if your memory is as poor as mine
and you can't remember all your shortcuts and trigger keys.

I know the icons look kind of crappy but what the heck - it works for me!

what a great idea, pjs! but how do I set it up /use it in REAPER?
btw I'd immediately vote + 1000 to have the option of displaying a macro toolbar in REAPER natively. I always got other things on my mind than keyboard shortcuts...

what a great idea, pjs! but how do I set it up /use it in REAPER?
btw I'd immediately vote + 1000 to have the option of displaying a macro toolbar in REAPER natively. I always got other things on my mind than keyboard shortcuts...

You can install autohotkey Alex, or I could turn it into an executable file for you...you should check the shortcuts are to your liking though (right click on the ahk script, edit script).

How many times have you done Ctrl S to save file, only that because you're on an FX window, up pops the box to save your FX Chain, not the project file.

Doesn't it drive you mad?

Well this little AutoHotKey macro keeps Ctrl S as context sensitive (so you can still use Ctrl S to specifically save your FX chain if you wish), but uses Ctrl Shift Q to ALWAYS save the project file. Of course you can use any key combo you like - I've assigned it to one of the orange button on my n52!

The macro makes the Main REAPER window active, then saves, then returns to whichever window you were in when you invoked the macro and makes that window active again.

Ok here's one that places them in order (left to right = top to bottom), and puts each slice at the start of their new tracks. You need to insert a track and drag it above the slice track, as per the previous example.